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Word Meanings - DISFAVOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. The people that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 . Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone. 2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state

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1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. The people that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 . Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone. 2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court. 3. An unkindness; a disobliging act. He might dispense favors and disfavors. Clarendon.

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  • DISFAVORABLY
    Unpropitiously.
  • DISFAVORABLE
    Unfavorable. Stow.
  • DISFAVORER
    One who disfavors. Bacon.
  • HISSINGLY
    With a hissing sound.
  • HISSING
    1. The act of emitting a hiss or hisses. 2. The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision. I will make this city desolate, and a hissing. Jer. xix. 8.
  • OUTCRY
    1. A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm, opposition, or detestation; clamor. 2. Sale at public auction. Massinger. Thackeray.
  • DISFAVOR
    1. Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard. The people that deserved my disfavor. Is. x. 6 . Sentiment of disfavor against its ally. Gladstone. 2. The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state
  • HISS
    1. To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound
  • SIBILATION
    Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss. He, with a long, low sibilation, stared. Tennyson.
  • ASSIBILATION
    Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

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